British ambassador summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry

British Ambassador Nigel Casey has been summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry. This was announced on November 26 by the official representative of the Ministry Maria Zakharova.

"The British ambassador has been summoned to the Foreign Ministry," she said.

Casey had already arrived at the ministry and walked silently into the building, refusing to make any comments to journalists.

Earlier in the day, the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) said that Wilkes Pryor, an employee of the British embassy in Moscow and second secretary of the political department of the diplomatic mission, was engaged in intelligence and subversive activities. He was stripped of his accreditation and will be expelled from Russia. It is specified that Pryor replaced one of the British intelligence officers who were found among the diplomats of the embassy earlier.

On September 13, the FSB reported that the British diplomatic mission in Moscow uncovered the intelligence activities of six spies under the cover of diplomatic work. Their accreditation was terminated due to a threat to Russian security. The spies were expelled and footage later emerged of them preparing to leave Russia at the airport.

It was specified that the diplomats were preparing provocations in the country under special instructions. Britain's Foreign Office refused to apologize. The Russian Foreign Ministry said it shared the FSB's position and urged London to abandon its hostile policy towards Moscow.

Retired Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) Major General Alexander Mikhailov on the same day called the disclosure of the secret activities of British spies in the embassy and their subsequent expulsion a failure that characterizes the entire intelligence service of the kingdom. The expert noted that the quality of work of intelligence organizations is usually judged by their failures, and the British intelligence organization had a lot of them.